Ross Ulbricht News

Ross Ulbricht, also known as Dread Pirate Roberts, is the owner of the trading platform Silk Road. Silk Road was a platform for trading drugs, psychotropic substances and other illegal products. The website was working as a hidden service with Bitcoin as the main currency that was used as a payment method on the site because of its relative anonymity, transactions’ speed and Ross’s affection for digital currency. Ross Ulbricht’s net worth is estimated to be several millions of dollars, a result of charging a fee on every successful deal. In 2013, he was arrested on charges of drug trafficking, hacking attacks and conspiracy to commit money laundering. In 2015, Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life imprisonment at the age of 31.

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Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht Denied Review of Prison Life Sentence by Supreme Court

JUN 28, 2018
by Molly Jane Zuckerman

Ross Ulbricht, currently serving a life sentence for his participation in the now-closed Silk Road marketplace, has his sentence review denied by the Supreme Co...

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News

US: Federal Prosecutors Ask For Forfeiture Of 500 BTC

MAR 02, 2018
by Molly Jane Zuckerman

500 BTC ($5.5 mln) to be seized if four people in Ohio are convicted of selling and transferring fake identification documents.

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Big Brother

Governments Using Crypto as a Reason to Spy on Us

DEC 10, 2017
by Gareth Jenkinson

Are governments trying to use cryptocurrencies as another reason to spy on us?

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Silk Road Agent Bridges Gets 2 Extra Years Jail Over Second Bitcoin Theft

NOV 08, 2017
by William Suberg

The Silk Road secret agent serving over six years for theft of Bitcoins will now serve eight as further charges are brought.

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Much Wow

Feds Claim Proceeds from Seized Silk Road Fortune at Only $334 per Bitcoin

OCT 03, 2017
by Darryn Pollock

The US Justice Department was finally able to claim the proceeds from the sale of 144,336 Bitcoins sized when they shut down illicit online market, the Silk Roa...

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Dark Web Market AlphaBay Shut Down by US Authorities

JUL 26, 2017
by Joshua Althauser

US government, in cooperation with European authorities, has shut down the infamous dark web market, AlphaBay.

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Ruckus

Dark Market AlphaBay Goes Way Of Silk Road After Operator Found Dead

JUL 14, 2017
by Alexander Geralis

Shadow online marketplace AlphaBay is shut down in a sting operation reminiscent of the Silk...

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Ruckus

Mysterious Ethereum Millionaire Sparks New Debate on Anonymity

JUL 11, 2017
by Darryn Pollock

A mysterious Ethereum trader has boasted about earning $283 mln in just one month which renewed concerns about the anonymous nature of cryptocurrencies.

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Coinbase Freezes $40k Ross Ulbricht Funds As Rumors Fly

JUN 16, 2017
by William Suberg

Coinbase has shut off access to funds used by Ross Ulbricht campaigners after a 16.5 BTC donation.

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Bitcoin is Not Responsible for Online Drug Dealing

JUN 15, 2017
by Shivdeep Dhaliwal

We must address the elephant in the room and tackle the real issue why drugs are being sold online.

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Third Corrupt U.S. Government Agent Discovered in Silk Road Case

NOV 30, 2016
by Joël Valenzuela

Lawyers representing former Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht announced via press conference that they believe they have discovered another corrupt government ag...

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Author of ‘Down the Deep, Dark Web’: Silk Road was Proof of Concept

AUG 20, 2016
by Amelia Tomasicchio

Cointelegraph spoke to the writer and associate producer of TV movie documentary ‘Down the Deep, Dark Web’ (2016) Yuval Orr about Silk Road, crypto-anarchists a...

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Gary Johnson Would "Look Seriously At" Pardoning Ross Ulbricht, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning

JUL 30, 2016
by Joël Valenzuela

US presidential candidate Gary Johnson would consider pardoning such electronic scofflaws as Ross Ulbricht, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning if elected presi...

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Unsealed Transcript Shows How Judge Justified Ross Ulbricht's Life Sentence

OCT 09, 2015
by Evander Smart

Back in May, New York District Court Judge Katherine Forrest sentenced Silk Road website founder Ross Ulbricht to life in prison.

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FBI Agent Threatens to Kill Silk Road Architect, Ulbricht’s Family for Bitcoin

SEP 28, 2015
by Joseph Young

Diamond, which is believed to be an online alias of an unknown corrupt FBI agent, has been threatening to kill Silk Road Architect Variety Jones and torture Ros...

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